Trade Remedies Policy and Strategy Team Leaders (x2)
| Posting date: | 25 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London Salary: £57,026 - £63,481 National Salary: £53,560 - £60,118 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2024 |
| Location: | Belfast |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358895/1 |
Summary
These roles are based in the Trade Remedies team, part of the Trade Defence directorate, within DBT’s Economic Security and Trade Relations (ESTR) Group. The Trade Defence directorate works to ensure the UK is defended from unfair trade, market distortions and emerging threats to protect our economic prosperity and security.
The Trade Remedies Team is recruiting for at least two stretching policy and strategy Grade 7 roles. Trade remedies are vital tools that World Trade Organization members can use to protect domestic producers from unfair foreign trade practices and/or a surge of imports, protecting the UK’s economic security. One role will sit in the ‘Domestic Trade Remedies’ team and the other will sit in the ‘Sponsorship and Strategy’ team.
Domestic Trade Remedies Team
We are responsible for the underlying policy and legislation of the UK’s trade remedies system. This includes reviewing, designing and delivering policy and legislative solutions to refine the system. We also work across Whitehall to deliver and implement Ministerial decisions with respect to any investigation. The role in this team is a policy role, though will require strategic nous. It will focus on leading new and pacey policy projects to refine and deliver the UK’s trade remedies system in line with Ministerial objectives and UK economic interests.
Sponsorship and Strategy Team
We are responsible for horizon scanning and working across the department and Whitehall to identify where and how trade remedies and broader trade defence tools could be used as tools to protect UK economic interests. We are also responsible for managing the sponsorship relationship between DBT and the Trade Remedies Authority. This role is a strategy role, likely to focus on the UK’s approach to key sectors including steel and green technologies, in the context of geopolitical shifts, UK economic interests and our net zero commitments.
Both roles will require the successful candidates to proactively lead on the development of policy and strategy initiatives in politically sensitive sectors that serve to support and improve the delivery of the wider trade remedies policy and legislative framework. The successful candidates will be at the forefront of challenging and pacey work on which interest and appetite is increasing in the department and across Whitehall. The roles will require the successful candidates to engage and work across the department and across Whitehall/internal organisations (e.g., Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and the Trade Remedies Authority). The work associated with both roles is likely to attract significant senior and Ministerial attention.
If you have a preference for working in one team over the other, we will consider this at interview.
Job Description/Key Accountabilities
Depending on which role you are successful for, you will:
Policy team role:
- Lead the development and delivery of policy, legislative and strategy initiatives, delivering results that meet Ministerial and cross-government priorities. This may include refining aspects of the UK’s trade remedies system or leveraging trade remedies as a solution to help protect the UK’s economic security.
- Build strong working relationships and lead engagement across DBT and with other departments on emerging trade remedy related trends, issues and risks designing appropriate policy and legislative solutions for the department to pursue.
- Become an expert in trade remedies policy and be able to draw links with how remedies interact with wider government priorities and the UK’s economic security.
Strategy team role:
- For the Strategy team role, this will involve developing the UK’s future trade remedies and broader trade defence strategies across key sectors of interest and depending on ministerial steers.
- This will mean working with our domestic sector teams to ensure we are taking a strategic approach to trade remedies in key sectors, taking into account the UK’s trade remedies system.
- You will examine sectors domestically and abroad (e.g., China and EU, US) to create a forward leaning strategy on where UK action might need to be taken on future trade remedies, as well as responding to new scenarios as they arise.
- You will be expected to build relationships across DBT and Whitehall and to understand the specific needs of the sector, working closely with economic analysts to ensure this.
- You will play a key role in developing the UK’s approach to trade defence tools on clean technologies of the future, ensuring that we have appropriate measures in place to provide appropriate protection for UK industry in a fast-moving and highly political global context.
For both roles, we anticipate that you will have line management responsibilities and be expected to manage a small team to achieve your policy and strategy objectives.
You may be required to work flexibly across the trade remedies and broader trade defence team on priority projects as the need arises.